mtlumby2d Chapter 246 Cecil, do me a favor.
Chapter 246 Cecil, do me a favor.
Therefore, even for ordinary people with talent who want to continue improving after the sixth rank, it is very difficult to obtain the black crystal on their own.
After all, it's difficult for ordinary people to compete with those wealthy families who have accumulated wealth over dozens of generations, let alone most ordinary insects who can't even find a place to auction black crystals.
Noah and Cecil were able to obtain five grams of black crystal from their families at the same cost.
For those above the seventh rank, if Noah wanted to obtain more Black Crystal Stones, his family intended for him to enter into a marriage alliance.
He probably couldn't accept the conditions proposed by the Cecil family, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to a primitive planet that seemed to have no future.
Ironically, they spent a full ten years on that planet, initially just predicting the possibility of a comet landing, and they gambled away ten years on that one possibility.
For ten years, they hid in a deep-sea laboratory. If the meteorite that fell was just an ordinary celestial body and did not contain a large amount of black crystals, then they had wasted nearly ten years and only obtained some crystal cores of a relatively low grade.
However, they were lucky; the falling meteorite contained a large amount of black crystals. Cecil's hands were trembling when they sent the message back.
Otherwise, how could the insects on the insect planet be willing to actually let them take on this task? Every family would not let go of any possibility of a breakthrough; this is just one of their many investments.
Otherwise, even if the Insect King wanted to give Riva, who was a commoner, a chance, she would never have come to this planet.
After ten years of silence, no one expected that this would turn out to be such a highly profitable business.
The collection of black crystals was so coveted that every insect on the insect planet was envious. Five hundred grams of black crystals were immediately divided up after being transported back to the insect planet.
Although Noah said nothing, he secretly avoided the eyes and ears of the other insects and carried out the refining of black crystal on his own.
Of the 500 grams of black crystal, the Noah family, Cecil family, and the Insect King should get the lion's share, but... if they want to get their own 10 grams, it will probably take them more than ten years of effort.
Besides, who would complain about having too many black crystals? Even if you can't use them all, you can still sell them for a high price.
Although the method of extracting black crystals is a forbidden technique, Noah still found an opportunity to learn it by stealing it. He even watched without changing his expression right under the noses of his family elders, using his exceptional memory to memorize the extraction method.
Over three months, Noah extracted approximately seventy grams of black crystal.
Out of a shared interest and to share the risk with him, Noah gifted Cecil twenty grams free of charge.
However, after Noah returned to the insect planet, he belatedly discovered that the fifty grams of black crystal he had carefully stored in his space had vanished without a trace.
At this moment, recalling Fan Jian, whose body he had possessed, he suddenly understood the meaning behind the meaningful smile Fan Jian gave him as he vanished.
He, Noah, the heir to the Sheffield family, was outwitted by a lowly, utterly foolish idiot.
All the hard work he had painstakingly put into refining over three months was handed over to someone else.
When Cecil learned of this, his back wound hadn't even healed yet, and he was already up in the middle of the night laughing at Noah's foolishness.
In the end, Cecil took out the twenty grams of black crystal that Noah had given him earlier and divided them equally, so that Noah could prepare the amount of black crystal needed for the next advancement.
Noah was feeling a bit tired. The leaders of the various tribes in the conference room had not yet finalized their plans for dividing the spoils, and he was already growing weary of it all.
Cecil kept fiddling with the ten grams of black crystal in his spatial button, planning to recuperate properly after returning home and then find an opportunity to get back the ten grams of black crystal that his family should have given him.
"Noah, don't forget to go back and ask for your ten grams of black crystal back, lest your brothers and sisters benefit from it."
To consolidate their position, powerful families will breed a large number of offspring, gambling on the near one in ten thousand chance of producing an outstanding insect offspring with S-level mental strength.
Noah was somewhat tired of this repetitive life of fighting for resources. For a moment, he was lost in thought, recalling fragmented memories of when he possessed Fan Jian's body in that cramped base.
Noah played with the last ten grams of black crystal in the space, calculating how to make the already dead Fan Jian repay the debt.
"Cecil, do me a favor..."
Inside the base, Lu Yize noticed that Jiang Yue kept tapping her head with her hand. It couldn't be that she was trying to grow a brain, so Lu Yize used his mental power to examine Jiang Yue but found nothing unusual.
After tapping a few times, Jiang Yue stopped and continued to operate the crystal core to enhance her supernatural abilities, as if nothing had happened.
Lu Yize stood up, reached out and touched her forehead to enhance his spiritual perception, and only released her hand after confirming that she was alright.
Who knows, it might actually be developing a brain.
Just then, Lu Yize's power ring on his left hand flashed twice, and he opened it to receive a message from Chen Mingzhang.
Lu Yize left a small one-way transmission port in the central base. Chen Mingzhang used this power transmission port to send the previously agreed-upon robotic arm to Lu Yize's location.
Lu Yize's ability transmission port is connected to his own ability space, which can be considered a form of defense.
He didn't rush to take out the robotic arm, but sat quietly to the side studying the black, unidentified crystal.
The black crystal that Fan Jian brought out from his heart had appeared in Noah's memories; he had used it when he advanced to the sixth rank.
However, the black crystal that Noah used back then didn't seem to be as heavy as the one in his hand, and Lu Yize felt that the smell was somewhat familiar.
Lu Yize felt like he'd smelled it somewhere before, but he couldn't quite place it.
A loud crash suddenly came from Jiang Yue's direction. Lu Yize immediately turned his head and found that Jiang Yue had fallen to the ground headfirst, with veins bulging on her forehead and a cut on her temple, with blood dripping down her brow bone and onto her eyelashes.
"What happened."
Lu Yize traversed space to Jiang Yue's side, took out gauze from his space and pressed it against her forehead. Upon touching it, Lu Yize frowned and found that Jiang Yue's body temperature rose rapidly.
Sheng Xue and Xian Wenrui came out immediately upon hearing the commotion. Sheng Xue was sensitive to the smell of blood, and upon seeing the blood on Jiang Yue's forehead, she immediately used her special ability to heal her.
The blood was still wet, but the wound on his head was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Xian Wenrui was a step behind him. When he got closer, he noticed that Jiang Yue's face had once again developed bluish-black blood vessels, and her fangs had grown even longer.
"Jiang Yue... what's wrong?"
"It's time to advance to the next level," Sheng Xue concluded.
Hearing this, Xian Wenrui breathed a sigh of relief. "Advanced, that's good. Brother Lu, why don't you take Sheng Xue back to her room?"